Two human rights leaders who work with the United Nations on Thursday denounced President Trump’s rhetoric on the media as a violation of “basic norms of press freedom” this week.
David Kane, special rapporteurs on freedom of expression for the United Nations, and Edison Lanza, special rapporteurs on Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, released a joint statement that called the president’s words dangerous.
They specifically highlighted Mr. Trump’s “enemy of the people” phrase and warned that his rhetoric will increase the risk of violence toward journalists.
“Each time the President calls the media ‘the enemy of the people’ or fails to allow questions from reporters from dis-favoured outlets,” the experts wrote, “he suggests nefarious motivations or animus. But he has failed to show even once that specific reporting has been driven by any untoward motivations.”
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4 comments:
Gosh, just listening to the lies of CNN and MSNBC are spewing out makes my spine crawl, but what is this snowflake listening to that rates this ignorant rant?
What about when obama wire tapped a fox reporter? And they found NOTHING! Bottom line President Trump will win in two years and they all no it.
awesome, once the un comes out for or against you, the public will know who you represent!
Riddle me this. If the president tells the media they are "fake news", and they refuse to report on it, did it really happen??
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